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A nifty hack made Mario a playable character in 1994's Donkey Kong Country


A really neat hack put Mario in Donkey Kong Country, complete with his typical moveset. The mustachioed plumber finally gets to square off against King K. Rool.

Mario is a playable character in a hacked version of the SNES classic Donkey Kong Country, due to a ROM programmer called RainbowSprinklez. The music also looks to be altered, replacing the original tracks with songs from Mario, Zelda and Mega Man games. RainbowSprinklez wrote that the hack was "made for no other reason than I like Mario" in a document released alongside the ROM.

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